Monday, July 05, 2010

HTC Legend - Review

The Good.- Nice Body- Nice Camera

The Bad.- The Interface is bad. The keyboard is cluttered, with redundant glyphs cluttering each key.- 6 hardware buttons which don't work as you expect.- Multiple ways to scroll the screen, which work differently in each app. You can use the trackball, or the touch screen. Or accidentally both at once.

The Really Bad.- The browser threw a javascript error on the google home page.- The browser does a lousy job of rendering. Some web pages flicked between line wrap and no line wrap, making scrolling and viewing difficult, if not impossible.- Despite the browser working, and obviously having a working data link, the maps application refused to work, complaining that it needed a data link.- The Google Mail sync also refused to work, complaining that it needed a data link.- In fact, the only internet enabled app that worked was the browser.